Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
Petrified Forest National Park has the largest collection of fossilized trees in the world. 225 million years ago the trees, Araucarioxylon, Woodworthia, Schilderia, and others, fell into streams and washed into floodplains and mixed with silt, mud, and volcanic ash. Silica-laden groundwater seeped through the logs and replaced the wood tissue with silica. The silica crystallized into quartz, preserving the wood. Remnants of early human occupation of the area dating back to 1250 A.D. are found at Puerco Pueblo. The 100 room pueblo sheltered over 1,000 people. More recently, the Painted Desert Inn, built by Herbert David Lore around 1920, was used as the first overnight lodge in the area. The décor and architecture of the Painted Desert Inn reflects the awesome vistas of the surrounding beauty of the Painted Desert. The nearby trail head will lead you to a unique wilderness camping environment. Music copyright 2007 by Maury Smith. Slideshow by John Wanserski.
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Slideshow of the Puerco Pueblo and petroglyphs in the Petrified Forest National Park.
Petrified Forest National Park
Recorded April 17, 2017
Petrified Forest National Park, located in northeastern Arizona, is named for its large deposits of petrified wood. The park covers about 230 square miles, encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands. This video includes...
04:35 Blue Mesa
13:25 The Tepees
14:22 Newspaper Rock
15:47 Puerco Pueblo
16:37 Lacey Point
17:47 Whipple Point
18:10 Nizhoni Point
18:41 Pintado Point
21:05 Chinde Point
21:42 Tawa Point
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Puerco Pueblo
Puerco Pueblo in the Petrified Forest National Park. Inhabited some 600 years ago. The trail overlooks some well preserved petroglyphs.
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, March 14 2017
After visiting the Painted Desert and Puerco Pueblo, we continued on the road towards the Petrified Forest. Between these two areas is a vast wash with a terrific view. You can go hiking out onto the wash and surrounding area. But remember! It is against the law to remove ANY item from a National Forest. Except yourself and loved ones in your vehicle. :)
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A Walk through the PAINTED DESERT and BLUE MESA TRAIL - Petrified Forest National Park ARIZONA
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Day five of our road trip through the southwest USA tok us from Los Alamos, New Mexico to Flagstaff, Arizona. On our way through AZ we stopped at the Petrified Forest National Park for some amazing views of the Painted Desert and walked the Blue Mesa trail.
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Petrified Forest National Park is a United States national park in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the fee area of the park covers about 230 square miles (600 square kilometers), encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands. The park's headquarters is about 26 miles (42 km) east of Holbrook along Interstate 40 (I-40), which parallels the BNSF Railway's Southern Transcon, the Puerco River, and historic U.S. Route 66, all crossing the park roughly east–west. The site, the northern part of which extends into the Painted Desert, was declared a national monument in 1906 and a national park in 1962. About 800,000 people visit the park each year and take part in activities including sightseeing, photography, hiking, and backpacking.
Averaging about 5,400 feet (1,600 m) in elevation, the park has a dry windy climate with temperatures that vary from summer highs of about 100 °F (38 °C) to winter lows well below freezing. More than 400 species of plants, dominated by grasses such as bunchgrass, blue grama, and sacaton, are found in the park. Fauna include larger animals such as pronghorns, coyotes, and bobcats, many smaller animals, such as deer mice, snakes, lizards, seven kinds of amphibians, and more than 200 species of birds, some of which are permanent residents and many of which are migratory. About half of the park is designated wilderness.
The Petrified Forest is known for its fossils, especially fallen trees that lived in the Late Triassic Period, about 225 million years ago. The sediments containing the fossil logs are part of the widespread and colorful Chinle Formation, from which the Painted Desert gets its name. Beginning about 60 million years ago, the Colorado Plateau, of which the park is part, was pushed upward by tectonic forces and exposed to increased erosion. All of the park's rock layers above the Chinle, except geologically recent ones found in parts of the park, have been removed by wind and water. In addition to petrified logs, fossils found in the park have included Late Triassic ferns, cycads, ginkgoes, and many other plants as well as fauna including giant reptiles called phytosaurs, large amphibians, and early dinosaurs. Paleontologists have been unearthing and studying the park's fossils since the early 20th century.
The park's earliest human inhabitants arrived at least 8,000 years ago. By about 2,000 years ago, they were growing corn in the area and shortly thereafter building pit houses in what would become the park. Later inhabitants built above-ground dwellings called pueblos. Although a changing climate caused the last of the park's pueblos to be abandoned by about 1400 CE, more than 600 archeological sites, including petroglyphs, have been discovered in the park. In the 16th century, Spanish explorers visited the area, and by the mid-19th century a U.S. team had surveyed an east–west route through the area where the park is now located and noted the petrified wood. Later, roads and a railway followed similar routes and gave rise to tourism and, before the park was protected, to large-scale removal of fossils. Theft of petrified wood remains a problem in the 21st century.
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Petrified Forest National Park is an American national park in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the fee area of the park covers about 230 square miles (600 square kilometers), encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands. The park's headquarters is about 26 miles (42 km) east of Holbrook along Interstate 40 (I-40), which parallels the BNSF Railway's Southern Transcon, the Puerco River, and historic U.S. Route 66, all crossing the park roughly east–west. The site, the northern part of which extends into the Painted Desert, was declared a national monument in 1906 and a national park in 1962. The park received 627,757 recreational visitors in 2017. Typical visitor activities include sightseeing, photography, hiking, and backpacking.
Averaging about 5,400 feet (1,600 m) in elevation, the park has a dry windy climate with temperatures that vary from summer highs of about 100 °F (38 °C) to winter lows well below freezing. More than 400 species of plants, dominated by grasses such as bunchgrass, blue grama, and sacaton, are found in the park. Fauna include larger animals such as pronghorns, coyotes, and bobcats, many smaller animals, such as deer mice, snakes, lizards, seven kinds of amphibians, and more than 200 species of birds, some of which are permanent residents and many of which are migratory. About one third of the park is designated wilderness—50,260 acres (79 sq mi; 203 km2).The Petrified Forest is known for its fossils, especially fallen trees that lived in the Late Triassic Period, about 225 million years ago. The sediments containing the fossil logs are part of the widespread and colorful Chinle Formation, from which the Painted Desert gets its name. Beginning about 60 million years ago, the Colorado Plateau, of which the park is part, was pushed upward by tectonic forces and exposed to increased erosion. All of the park's rock layers above the Chinle, except geologically recent ones found in parts of the park, have been removed by wind and water. In addition to petrified logs, fossils found in the park have included Late Triassic ferns, cycads, ginkgoes, and many other plants as well as fauna including giant reptiles called phytosaurs, large amphibians, and early dinosaurs. Paleontologists have been unearthing and studying the park's fossils since the early 20th century.
The park's earliest human inhabitants arrived at least 8,000 years ago. By about 2,000 years ago, they were growing corn in the area and shortly thereafter building pit houses in what would become the park. Later inhabitants built above-ground dwellings called pueblos. Although a changing climate caused the last of the park's pueblos to be abandoned by about 1400 CE, more than 600 archeological sites, including petroglyphs, have been discovered in the park. In the 16th century, Spanish explorers visited the area, and by the mid-19th century a U.S. team had surveyed an east–west route through the area where the park is now located and noted the petrified wood. Later, roads and a railway followed similar routes and gave rise to tourism and, before the park was protected, to large-scale removal of fossils. Theft of petrified wood remains a problem in the 21st century.
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Petrified Forest Petroglyphs
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Ruins
Various ruins of the Sinagua and Ancestral Puebloan: Puerco Pueblo of Petrified Forest NP, cliff dwellings of Walnut Canyon, NM, Tusayan (TOO-say-on) pueblo and museum of Grand Canyon NP, Betatakin (beh-TA-ta-kin) ruin of Navajo NM, Horsecollar ruin of Natural Bridges NM, Mule Canyon and Butler Wash ruins on BLM in Utah, and the Square Tower Group of Hovenweep NM.
Painted Rock Petroglyph Site
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Explorando el Bosque Petrificado y los petrograbados Anasazi
Te invito a acompañarme a explorar Parque Nacional del Bosque Petrificado en Arizona USA, el cual contiene una enorme área desértica donde se observa el trabajo de millones de años de depósitos geológicos.
Dentro del parque se puede apreciar el desierto rojo y los árboles petrificados que datan del período Triásico de la era Mesozóica (225 millones de años atrás).
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Puerco Pueblo fue un sitio de habitacional por la gente Pueblo Ancestral y posee una interesante colección de arte rupestre donde uno de ellos es un marcador arqueoastronómico lo que permitía a los antiguos saber cuando llegaba el solsticio de verano y así cosechar, recolectar, cazar o realizar rituales.
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Kachina Point at Petrified Forest National Park Panoramic View
The Painted Desert starts the video as it pans clockwise with views of the bright blue sky. About halfway through is the Painted Desert Inn and the approaching stormy clouds.
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Onyx Bridge Battery Bail, Petrified Forest, AZ
Onyx Bridge was supposed to be my third hike of the day, after First Forest Point ( ) and Jasper Forest Road ( ), but less than 50 yards into my hike, by the Painted Desert Inn, my battery died. So, instead, I filmed panoramas from the various observation points. Highlights include Lithodendron Wash, Pilot Rock and The Pinnacles.
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